Starting with explaining what MCS is and who gets it, the book soon addresses the core of the issues surrounding this controversial condition.
In the first of four parts, Ms. Gibson shares statistics on how many people are affected, and explores the many symptoms of this condition. Because we have all become so accustomed to using hundreds of chemicals everyday, this section is quite helpful in determining whether some of your discomforts might be related to your environment.
The second section details how to make your own environment safe, determining whether your eating habits are helping or hurting your condition, and how to make the personal choices you must make to survive. To become well, the survivor must clear their surroundings of what is making them ill. This can mean a lot of strife for family and friends as well as the sufferer because it means many lifestyle changes. Within this section you also learn how the medical establishment deals with this condition, and how to decide on treatment when that treatment may kill you.
Ms. Gibson really begins to touch the soul of the MCS survivor in part three. Here you’ll find concrete ways to come to terms with an illness that many physicians and consequently families, do not recognize. She helps you learn how to deal with the disability of this very real condition. Throughout this part you’ll find coping strategies that sufferers can use. A number of excellent suggestions people can employ to get their family’s support along with ways to help themselves cope and live a very productive life end this part
Workplace Accommodations and Applying for Disability Benefits begins the last section. Filled with tips on how to work with the system to meet your changing needs at work, this segment is very important to those whose disability has not reached the point of having to leave the workplace to remain healthy. It then introduces you to many people who are active in the effort to educate the public on the hazards of some of our lifestyle choices, and the needs of those who are already ill with MCS.
At the end of the book are several helpful appendixes detailing how studies of this condition have been performed and detailed information on where to buy environmentally safe products. Appendix C gives very complete resources for further information on this illness along with chapter resources used in writing this book.
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